Template:Ribbons

Displaying Multiple Citations of the Same Service Ribbon

Multiple Service Ribbons Policy

Any general ribbon, ribbon of gallantry & heroism, or lifesaving ribbon may be awarded multiple times, but any campaign ribbon may only be awarded once. A gold star represents each repeated win, and a silver star represents five additional wins (and therefore five gold stars).

From the Captains Council

How to use this template:

{{Ribbons|file name of service ribbon|width in pixels|number of times awarded}}

Service Ribbons are available here: Category:Service Ribbons Award Images

So for instance, just type in

{{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LegionOfMerit 2011.jpg|200|4}}

if you earned the Legion of Merit a total of four times and you'll get the appropriate arrangement of stars!

Let's say you've been awarded the Silver Star 7 times (wow!). You'd type in:

{{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons SilverStar 2011.jpg|100|7}}

and get

The template currently supports up to 9 citations of the same service ribbon. Here's how they all look:

How many?	Ribbon
2
5
4
5
6
7
8
9

And here's how it looks in a service rack:

The code used for that:

{| cellpadding="0" style="border: 1px solid darkgray;"
|- border="0"
| [[File:Awards_General_Tosma1_2011.jpg|100px]]
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons LegionOfMerit 2011.jpg|100|7}}
|-
| {{Ribbons|Awards ServiceRibbons SilverStar 2011.jpg|100|3}}
| [[File:Awards_General_Neelix_2011.jpg‎|100px]]
|-
| [[File:Awards-ServiceRibbon-VaadwaurInvasion.jpg|100px]]
| [[File:KlingonInvasion.jpg|100px]]
|}